Arjan’s World

…and I’m back. Created 2 categories “programming” and “the rest”. Hope you’ll appreciate it

PROGRAMMING

• Twitter Word Cloud Visualization with Google API – Elijah Manor
• Book review: Professional Refactoring in C# & ASP.NET – Jef Claes
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released – Phil Haack
• LINQ Query Syntax – a whistlestop – Marc Gravell
• Microsoft PDC09 keynote highlights – Maarten Balliauw
  Look, it’s already PDC time. Time flies when you’re busy doing other things…
• How We Do Things – The Team Room – Scott C Reynolds
• Using the JQuery dialog widget in a custom SharePoint web part – Charles Lee
  On JQuery UI… ‘ Actually it (like a lot of the JQuery UI widgets) is an incredibly powerful tool to your client side arsenal ‘
• Where do you benefit from dynamic typing? – Jon Skeet:
• Reproducing a WPF memory leak – Ayende Rahien
  ‘ (…) I started getting more reports from people experiencing large memory usage from NH Prof. That lead me to try to track it down again ‘
• Writing Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests – Adam Goucher
• How to get Started with TDD – Miško Hevery
  ‘ Best way to learn TDD is to have someone show you while pairing with you. Short of that, I have set up an eclipse project for you where you can give it a try: ‘
• Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) released on DevLabs – Matthew Podwysocki
  ‘ If you’re not familiar with Rx, it is a library for composing asynchronous and event based programs together using observable collections (IObservable<T>) ‘
• The High Cost of Losing a Developer – Dave Laribee
  ‘ The point of this post is simple: RETAIN YOUR GOOD DEVELOPERS ‘
• Request/Response Service Layer: Conclusions – Davy Brion
  ‘ Now that you’ve learned everything there is to know about the Request/Response Service Layer (RRSL), i’d like to repeat the benefits of the RRSL that i stated in a previous post: ‘
• Raising Events With Rhino Mocks AAA Syntax – Richard Banks
  ‘ I was just helping out someone today and showing them how to do it using the Arrange, Act, Assert (AAA) syntax in Rhino Mocks 3.5 and I thought you might be interested in know how to do this as well ‘
• It Doesn’t Matter If You Know What You’re Doing – Lee Brandt
  ‘ Developer’s, in general, are always afraid to let other developers see they’re code. They are afraid they won’t measure up ‘
• Clojure: A first look at recursive functions -Mark Needham
  ‘ Clojure doesn’t perform automatic tail call optimisation so we end up with a stack overflow exception if we run the function with a big enough input value ‘
• Mindfulness and Agile Teams – Amr Elssamadisy
  ‘ Fewer distractions can be found in many Agile teams as they focus on delivering customer value and having self organizing teams focused on one project at a time ‘
  A keynote
• Four Attributes of the Ideal Pilot Project – Mike Cohn
• Make Email Your Servant (Not Your Master) – Paul Sloane

THE REST

• The Complete Guide to Google Wave Is a Comprehensive Book on Wave – Google Wave – Lifehacker
  do you already Wave? Find me on azuidhof [AT] googlewave [DOT] com, let’s start the conversation!
• Disciplanner Makes Tracking and Assessing Your Goals Simple – Jason Fitzpatrick
• Tom’s Planner Is an Impressive, Intuitive Project Scheduling Tool – Adam Pash
  Cool new planning tool. Try it while it’s free!
• Information Pollution Alert! Living with Data Smog – Dustin Wax
  ‘ it’s not just that there’s too much information out there for one person to adequately encompass, it’s that there’s too much data out there to even make out the information clearly ‘
• Productivity Down! An Emergency Response Guide – Organize IT
  ‘ We’ve all been there, and more often than not when you’ve lost your momentum it’s doubly hard to get it back again ‘
• How to Achieve Critical Goals – The 4 Steps – Mr. Self Development
  ‘ Failure to achieve a “critical” goal renders the achievement of-all-other-goals inconsequential ‘
• 12 Lists That Help You Get Things Done – Dustin Wax
  Want to be *really* productive with your lists? Split them up. Dustin explains how
• Productivity Tips #15: Focus On That Which Matters Most – Organize IT
• The Only Way to Become Amazingly Great at Something – Leo Babauta
  ‘ (…) don’t get discouraged if you’re just starting out. Have fun, like we all did in the beginning. If you have fun, you’ll learn to love it, and THAT’S when it clicks ‘
• Searching for a Shared Virtual Workspace? – Clemens Rettich
  Showdown between Google Groups and Windows Office Live
• How To Focus On What Truly Matters – Sid Savara
  ‘ How did I end up working on all these things that aren’t who I am, and that don’t represent where I am going? ‘
  What to do about it
• Five Best Online Backup Tools – online backup – Jason Fitzpatrick
  Don’t leave the house without an online backup plan in some way. Me? Dropbox all the time!
• 25 Internet Startups That Bombed Miserably – Business Pundit
  Always great to read about other people’s failures. As long as you learn the lessons that can be drawn
• Watch 4 Days of TED India in 4 Minutes [Video] – Amit Agarwal
  This Friday I’m going to TEDx Amsterdam here in the Netherlands (well, a simulcast streaming version of it, to be exact, since I wan’t on the invitation list ). Looking really forward to it. Amit has a couple video’s from the Indian version to whet your appetite with TED, in case it’s new to you
• The importance of innovation in the era of the “new normal” – Jim Carroll
  ‘ I’ve witnessed first hand what innovation leaders are doing to ensure that they can survive and thrive in a period of n rapid economic change ‘
• 13 Ways I Get Back into Blogging after a Vacation – Darren Rowse
  Getting back into the flow can be hard after a holiday. Darren shows how the get back the magic inspiration of writing
• The Anti-Social Network – Omer van Kloeten